NUM launches Racial Justice for Sex Workers project
15 November 2021
We are delighted to announce our next research project at NUM: Racial Justice for Sex Workers.
About the project:
‘Racial Justice For Sex Workers’ is a project looking at the experiences and barriers sex workers of colour face when accessing public services and developing the pathways and policy changes necessary to increase their safety as a population and facilitated their reporting of harms perpetrated by those in positions of public trust. The project fights for rights and recognition, and challenges systemic racism experienced by sex workers of colour in sex work and outside of it.
What we want to know:
The project will focus on many central public sectors to understand how sex workers engage with these services and what needs to be improved within these systems to make sure the experiences of sex workers of colour are taken into account. The project will target on complaints processes across a variety of public sectors within the U.K. to highlight and challenge issues like medical racism, systemic racism within the policing process, housing/ landlord discrimination, academic discrimination within universities etc.
The project will be embedded within an anti-racist intersectional framework, looking to understand and capture the multi-layered way oppression operates across the lives of sex workers of colour within the UK.
Who we are partnering with:
The racial justice for sex workers project has been funded by The Joseph Rowntree Community Trust as a part of their Rights & Justice priority.
Key dates and how you can get involved:
The project launches 12th November 2021 and we will be recruiting research project assistants soon to help carry out interviews – for more information, please contact elizabeth@nationaluglymugs.org. Interviews with sex workers of colour will run until 31st January 2023.
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